I wonder if these have anything to do with IED?

> 1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that
> had its two sides gently
> compressed by a two-sided compressor.
>
> 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and
> breaking alliances like
> underpants in a dryer without Cling Film.
>
> 3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from
> experience, like
> somebody who went blind because he looked at a solar
> eclipse without one of
> those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around
> the country speaking at
> schools about the dangers of looking at a solar
> eclipse without one of those
> boxes with a pinhole in it.
>
> 4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E.coli
> and he was
> room-temperature Angus beef.
>
> 5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that
> sound a dog makes just
> before it throws up.
>
> 6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
>
> 7. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
>
> 8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had
> disintegrated because of
> his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a
> surcharge at a formerly
> surcharge-free power supply.
>
> 9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond
> exactly the way a bowling
> ball wouldn't.
>
> 10. McBride fell 12 storeys, hitting the pavement
> like a black bag filled
> with vegetable soup.
>
> 11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole
> scene had an eerie,
> surreal quality, like when you're on holiday in
> another country and
> Eastenders comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.
>
> 12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair
> after a sneeze.
>
> 13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just
> like maggots when you fry
> them in hot grease.
>
> 14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed
> lovers raced across the
> grassy field toward each other like two freight
> trains, one having left
> London at 6:36 p.m. travelling at 55 mph, the other
> from Cardiff at 4:19
> p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
>
> 15. They lived in a typical suburban neighbourhood
> with picket fences that
> resembled Janet Street Porter's teeth.
>
> 16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two
> hummingbirds who had
> also never met.
>
> 17. He fell for her like his heart was a police
> informant and she was the
> East End.
>
> 18. Even in his last years, Grandad had a mind like
> a steel trap, only one
> that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
>
> 19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
>
> 20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law
> Phil. But unlike Phil, this
> plan just might work.
>
> 21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind
> you get from not eating
> for a while.
>
> 22. He was as lame as a duck. Not a make-believe
> lame duck either, but a
> real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from
> stepping on a land mine or
> something.
>
>
> 23. The ballerina rose gracefully and extended one
> slender leg behind her,
> like a dog at a fire hydrant.
>
> 24. It was a family tradition, like fathers chasing
> kids around with power
> tools.
>
> 25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he
> thought he heard bells, as if
> she were a dustcart backing up.
>
> 26. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had
> forgotten to put in any
> swimming pool cleansing stuff.
>
> 27. She walked into my office like a centipede with
> 98 missing legs.
>
> 28. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you
> accidentally staple it to
> the wall.

Posted By: Brandonio, Feb 10, 13:56:00